Did real Scotsman in the Braveheart era don blue face paint? Did the fog battle in The Last Samurai actually happen? Would medieval society accept a bastard as king as it did in Kingdom of Heaven?

History Buffs has the answers. The YouTube series, produced and hosted by amateur historian Nick Hodges, reviews movies based on their historical accuracy. It’s for those who care that the Zulus didn’t actually salute the British as they did in the film Zulu or that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and fellow composer Antonio Salieri were likely respectful peers in real life instead of the rivals that were depicted in Amadeus. Redditors discussed the episodes in Reddit’s History community.

Hodges, who lives in the UK, criticizes historical films for altering true events to put out what he calls “Hollywood fluff,” and also for sugarcoating history in order to show the protagonists in a strictly positive light. “These movies should be able to remind us of how far we’ve come in improving our civilization,” he says in his podcast. “If you take out the bits we’re ashamed of, then you undermine your credibility in calling it a historical movie.”

Here are a few of his film reviews.

Braveheart

The verdict: Insanely inaccurate.

Hodges says, “The countless inaccuracies actually cheapen what William Wallace really did. In my opinion, the real man and his great deeds are far more interesting than the infallible Jesus figure that is presented on screen.”

Waterloo

The verdict: Very accurate.

“For the most part, what you see on the screen is pretty much exactly what went down,” Hodges says. The inaccuracies are so minuscule that he almost hesitates to bring them up — for instance, the Duchess of Richmond’s ball really took place in a converted coachhouse or barn, not a lavish ballroom.

Gladiator

The verdict: Inaccurate.

While Hodges enjoyed the film, he says “it fails as a true representation of Roman antiquity.”